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By Nicholas Casey, Patricia Torres and Ana Herrero The legitimacy of Sunday’s election to overhaul Venezuela’s Constitution was under threat as many voters avoided the ballot box, nations across the region rejected the predetermined result and the streets erupted in...
Millions of Venezuelans signaled their disapproval of President Nicolás Maduro’s plan to hold a constituent assembly by casting ballots on Sunday in a vote unlike any other in this nation’s history. More than 98 percent of voters sided with the opposition in answering...
More than a million households in Chile are without power following record-setting snowfall over central and southern areas of the country Friday night and Saturday. In Santiago, 300,000 homes were without electricity Saturday and much of the public transit system...
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly announced new aviation security measures Wednesday impacting overseas airports that have direct flights to the United States. The measures do not include a ban on large electronic devices in the passenger compartment of aircraft...
By Andrés Oppenheimer Hurrah! U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has come to Miami to meet with Central American and Mexican authorities in a rare moment of Trump administration attention to Latin America. Now there are several things he could do to dispel the...
By Jeremy Kryt Cartels are getting their swagger back in Colombia, drug-war violence is skyrocketing in Mexico, Central American countries like El Salvador and Honduras are now saddled with some of the highest homicide rates in the world, and parts of Brazil are open...
By Elizabeth Gonzalez Even in an increasingly machine-driven world, human capital is a crucial cog in the engine of any economy. The lack of it is a critical problem for Latin America, which has the highest skills shortage, per the World Economic Forum. Moreover, 50...
By Max Fisher and Amanda Taub Venezuela, by the numbers, resembles a country hit by civil war. Its economy, once Latin America’s richest, is estimated to have shrunk by 10 percent in 2016, more than Syria’s. Its inflation that year has been estimated as high as 720...
By Manuella Libardi Despite their different political affiliations and ideologies, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, former Brazilian President Lula da Silva, and former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo have one rather damning connection: their futures are...
President Nicolas Maduro declared a new state of emergency in Venezuela Tuesday, suspending most constitutional rights, as his government continued an apparent death-spiral as protestors filled the country's streets and highways. Business owners shuttered shops, a...
When a 28-year-old Argentina man suffered a head injury Monday, his best friend made sure he was well cared for until EMS personnel arrived. Freddy Gonzalez was pruning a tree in his front yard in BahÃa Blanca, 400 miles south of Buenos Aires, when he fell from a...
By Wesley Tomaselli Last June, Alejandro Arboleda Uribe was awakened from an afternoon nap by police kicking in the door of his apartment in the posh El Pablado district of MedellÃn. The 32-year-old drug kingpin probably assumed the protection of Mexican cartels and...
Women’s groups in Latin America are fighting back against the catcalls and other forms of sexual harassment that they are forced to deal with on a daily basis. Their weapon? A series of videos. Natalia Málaga, a former volleyball player who now coaches the Peruvian...
Panamanian immigration authorities are tightening some rules and instituting new ones to control access to the country by foreigners. The measures are intended to control what the Servicio Nacional de Migracion (SNM) says are abuses by foreigners who do not have legal...
As Venezuela slips deeper into social and economic chaos a new revelation has political pundits scratching their heads. Newly released documents show that Citgo Petroleum, a U.S.-based subsidiary of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company PVDSA, was one of the biggest...
By Zhang Chun As Chinese loans pour into Latin America, concerns over how the money is spent and how it will be repaid are growing on both sides of the bargaining table. Of most immediate concern for China is whether economically unstable governments such as Venezuela...
By J. Tadeo An activist and former public servant in Mexico is leading an unorthodox campaign to rub politicians’ faces in the public's dissatisfaction. Arne aus den Ruthen Haag is promoting a movement called #JitomatazoMx, rallying people on social media to collect...
By Anastasia Moloney Peru’s deadly floods are a wake-up call for cities across Latin America to prepare better for extreme weather as climate change and poor urban planning, alongside rapid population growth, worsen the problem of flooding, experts say. In Peru, the...
By Emma Rumney The Latin America and Caribbean region continued to close its tax gap with other countries in 2015, rebuffing the impact of the collapse in commodity prices on revenues, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has found. Tax...
The Mexican Catholic church says that any company or individual that assists U.S. President Donald Trump in constructing a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border "should be considered traitors to the country." "Companies, especially those from Mexico, with intentions of...
